Convolutional Neural Networks

Project: Write an Algorithm for a Dog Identification App


In this notebook, some template code has already been provided for you, and you will need to implement additional functionality to successfully complete this project. You will not need to modify the included code beyond what is requested. Sections that begin with '(IMPLEMENTATION)' in the header indicate that the following block of code will require additional functionality which you must provide. Instructions will be provided for each section, and the specifics of the implementation are marked in the code block with a 'TODO' statement. Please be sure to read the instructions carefully!

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In addition to implementing code, there will be questions that you must answer which relate to the project and your implementation. Each section where you will answer a question is preceded by a 'Question X' header. Carefully read each question and provide thorough answers in the following text boxes that begin with 'Answer:'. Your project submission will be evaluated based on your answers to each of the questions and the implementation you provide.

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The rubric contains optional "Stand Out Suggestions" for enhancing the project beyond the minimum requirements. If you decide to pursue the "Stand Out Suggestions", you should include the code in this Jupyter notebook.


Why We're Here

In this notebook, you will make the first steps towards developing an algorithm that could be used as part of a mobile or web app. At the end of this project, your code will accept any user-supplied image as input. If a dog is detected in the image, it will provide an estimate of the dog's breed. If a human is detected, it will provide an estimate of the dog breed that is most resembling. The image below displays potential sample output of your finished project (... but we expect that each student's algorithm will behave differently!).

Sample Dog Output

In this real-world setting, you will need to piece together a series of models to perform different tasks; for instance, the algorithm that detects humans in an image will be different from the CNN that infers dog breed. There are many points of possible failure, and no perfect algorithm exists. Your imperfect solution will nonetheless create a fun user experience!

The Road Ahead

We break the notebook into separate steps. Feel free to use the links below to navigate the notebook.

  • Step 0: Import Datasets
  • Step 1: Detect Humans
  • Step 2: Detect Dogs
  • Step 3: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (from Scratch)
  • Step 4: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (using Transfer Learning)
  • Step 5: Write your Algorithm
  • Step 6: Test Your Algorithm

Step 0: Import Datasets

Make sure that you've downloaded the required human and dog datasets:

Note: if you are using the Udacity workspace, you DO NOT need to re-download these - they can be found in the /data folder as noted in the cell below.

  • Download the dog dataset. Unzip the folder and place it in this project's home directory, at the location /dog_images.

  • Download the human dataset. Unzip the folder and place it in the home directory, at location /lfw.

Note: If you are using a Windows machine, you are encouraged to use 7zip to extract the folder.

In the code cell below, we save the file paths for both the human (LFW) dataset and dog dataset in the numpy arrays human_files and dog_files.

In [1]:
import numpy as np
from glob import glob

# load filenames for human and dog images
human_files = np.array(glob("/data/lfw/*/*"))
dog_files = np.array(glob("/data/dog_images/*/*/*"))

# print number of images in each dataset
print('There are %d total human images.' % len(human_files))
print('There are %d total dog images.' % len(dog_files))
There are 13233 total human images.
There are 8351 total dog images.

Step 1: Detect Humans

In this section, we use OpenCV's implementation of Haar feature-based cascade classifiers to detect human faces in images.

OpenCV provides many pre-trained face detectors, stored as XML files on github. We have downloaded one of these detectors and stored it in the haarcascades directory. In the next code cell, we demonstrate how to use this detector to find human faces in a sample image.

In [76]:
import cv2                
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt                        
%matplotlib inline                               
%config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'retina'

# extract pre-trained face detector
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml')

# load color (BGR) image
img = cv2.imread(human_files[0])
# convert BGR image to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

# find faces in image
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)

# print number of faces detected in the image
print('Number of faces detected:', len(faces))

# get bounding box for each detected face
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
    # add bounding box to color image
    cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
    
print("Size of faces is ",faces.shape)
    
# convert BGR image to RGB for plotting
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)

# display the image, along with bounding box
plt.imshow(cv_rgb)
plt.show()
Number of faces detected: 1
Size of faces is  (1, 4)

Before using any of the face detectors, it is standard procedure to convert the images to grayscale. The detectMultiScale function executes the classifier stored in face_cascade and takes the grayscale image as a parameter.

In the above code, faces is a numpy array of detected faces, where each row corresponds to a detected face. Each detected face is a 1D array with four entries that specifies the bounding box of the detected face. The first two entries in the array (extracted in the above code as x and y) specify the horizontal and vertical positions of the top left corner of the bounding box. The last two entries in the array (extracted here as w and h) specify the width and height of the box.

Write a Human Face Detector

We can use this procedure to write a function that returns True if a human face is detected in an image and False otherwise. This function, aptly named face_detector, takes a string-valued file path to an image as input and appears in the code block below.

In [63]:
# returns "True" if face is detected in image stored at img_path
def face_detector(img_path):
    img = cv2.imread(img_path)
    gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
    return len(faces) > 0

(IMPLEMENTATION) Assess the Human Face Detector

Question 1: Use the code cell below to test the performance of the face_detector function.

  • What percentage of the first 100 images in human_files have a detected human face?
  • What percentage of the first 100 images in dog_files have a detected human face?

Ideally, we would like 100% of human images with a detected face and 0% of dog images with a detected face. You will see that our algorithm falls short of this goal, but still gives acceptable performance. We extract the file paths for the first 100 images from each of the datasets and store them in the numpy arrays human_files_short and dog_files_short.

Answer: (You can print out your results and/or write your percentages in this cell)

  • A human face was detected in 98% of the first 100 images in human_files.
  • A human face was detected in 17% of the first 100 images in dog_files
In [77]:
from tqdm import tqdm

human_files_short = human_files[:100]
dog_files_short = dog_files[:100]

#-#-# Do NOT modify the code above this line. #-#-#

## TODO: Test the performance of the face_detector algorithm 
## on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
human_count = [face_detector(human) for human in human_files_short]
human_percent = (np.sum(human_count)/len(human_count)) * 100
print("human percentage is: " + str(human_percent)+ "%")

dog_count =[face_detector(dog) for dog in dog_files_short]
dog_percent = (np.sum(dog_count)/len(dog_count)) * 100
print("dog percentage is: " + str(dog_percent) + "%")
human percentage is: 98.0%
dog percentage is: 17.0%

We suggest the face detector from OpenCV as a potential way to detect human images in your algorithm, but you are free to explore other approaches, especially approaches that make use of deep learning :). Please use the code cell below to design and test your own face detection algorithm. If you decide to pursue this optional task, report performance on human_files_short and dog_files_short.

In [6]:
### (Optional) 
### TODO: Test performance of anotherface detection algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

Step 2: Detect Dogs

In this section, we use a pre-trained model to detect dogs in images.

Obtain Pre-trained VGG-16 Model

The code cell below downloads the VGG-16 model, along with weights that have been trained on ImageNet, a very large, very popular dataset used for image classification and other vision tasks. ImageNet contains over 10 million URLs, each linking to an image containing an object from one of 1000 categories.

In [78]:
import torchvision.models as models

# define VGG16 model
VGG16 = models.vgg16(pretrained=True)

# check if CUDA is available
use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()

# move model to GPU if CUDA is available
if use_cuda:
    VGG16 = VGG16.cuda()

Given an image, this pre-trained VGG-16 model returns a prediction (derived from the 1000 possible categories in ImageNet) for the object that is contained in the image.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Making Predictions with a Pre-trained Model

In the next code cell, you will write a function that accepts a path to an image (such as 'dogImages/train/001.Affenpinscher/Affenpinscher_00001.jpg') as input and returns the index corresponding to the ImageNet class that is predicted by the pre-trained VGG-16 model. The output should always be an integer between 0 and 999, inclusive.

Before writing the function, make sure that you take the time to learn how to appropriately pre-process tensors for pre-trained models in the PyTorch documentation.

In [79]:
from PIL import Image
import torchvision.transforms as transforms


def VGG16_predict(img_path):
    '''
    Use pre-trained VGG-16 model to obtain index corresponding to 
    predicted ImageNet class for image at specified path
    
    Args:
        img_path: path to an image
        
    Returns:
        Index corresponding to VGG-16 model's prediction
    '''
    
    ## TODO: Complete the function.
    ## Load and pre-process an image from the given img_path
    ## Return the *index* of the predicted class for that image
    img = Image.open(img_path).convert('RGB')
    transform = transforms.Compose([
        transforms.Resize(256),
        transforms.CenterCrop([224,224]),
        transforms.ToTensor(),
        transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                             std=[0.229, 0.224, 0.225])
    ])
    img_processed = transform(img)[:3,:,:].unsqueeze(0)

    outputs = VGG16(img_processed.to('cuda'))
    _, prediction = torch.max(outputs, 1)
    predicted_index = np.squeeze(prediction.cpu().numpy()) 
    
    
    return int(predicted_index)# predicted class index

(IMPLEMENTATION) Write a Dog Detector

While looking at the dictionary, you will notice that the categories corresponding to dogs appear in an uninterrupted sequence and correspond to dictionary keys 151-268, inclusive, to include all categories from 'Chihuahua' to 'Mexican hairless'. Thus, in order to check to see if an image is predicted to contain a dog by the pre-trained VGG-16 model, we need only check if the pre-trained model predicts an index between 151 and 268 (inclusive).

Use these ideas to complete the dog_detector function below, which returns True if a dog is detected in an image (and False if not).

In [81]:
### returns "True" if a dog is detected in the image stored at img_path
def dog_detector(img_path):
    ## TODO: Complete the function.
    prediction = VGG16_predict(img_path)
    if (prediction>=151) and (prediction<=268):
        return True
    else:
        return False

(IMPLEMENTATION) Assess the Dog Detector

Question 2: Use the code cell below to test the performance of your dog_detector function.

  • What percentage of the images in human_files_short have a detected dog?
  • What percentage of the images in dog_files_short have a detected dog?

Answer:

  • A dog was detected in 0% of the images in human_files_short.
  • A dog was detected in 100% of the images in dog_files_short.
In [54]:
### TODO: Test the performance of the dog_detector function
### on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
human_files_short = human_files[:100]
dog_files_short = dog_files[:100]

def dogs_counter(images):
    count = 0
    for img in images:
        if dog_detector(img):
            count += 1
    return count

print("Detected dogs in human files ", dogs_counter(human_files_short),"%")
print("Detected dogs in dogs files ",dogs_counter(dog_files_short),"%")
Detected dogs in human files  0 %
Detected dogs in dogs files  100 %

We suggest VGG-16 as a potential network to detect dog images in your algorithm, but you are free to explore other pre-trained networks (such as Inception-v3, ResNet-50, etc). Please use the code cell below to test other pre-trained PyTorch models. If you decide to pursue this optional task, report performance on human_files_short and dog_files_short.

In [59]:
### (Optional) 
### TODO: Report the performance of another pre-trained network.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

Step 3: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (from Scratch)

Now that we have functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, we need a way to predict breed from images. In this step, you will create a CNN that classifies dog breeds. You must create your CNN from scratch (so, you can't use transfer learning yet!), and you must attain a test accuracy of at least 10%. In Step 4 of this notebook, you will have the opportunity to use transfer learning to create a CNN that attains greatly improved accuracy.

We mention that the task of assigning breed to dogs from images is considered exceptionally challenging. To see why, consider that even a human would have trouble distinguishing between a Brittany and a Welsh Springer Spaniel.

Brittany Welsh Springer Spaniel

It is not difficult to find other dog breed pairs with minimal inter-class variation (for instance, Curly-Coated Retrievers and American Water Spaniels).

Curly-Coated Retriever American Water Spaniel

Likewise, recall that labradors come in yellow, chocolate, and black. Your vision-based algorithm will have to conquer this high intra-class variation to determine how to classify all of these different shades as the same breed.

Yellow Labrador Chocolate Labrador Black Labrador

We also mention that random chance presents an exceptionally low bar: setting aside the fact that the classes are slightly imabalanced, a random guess will provide a correct answer roughly 1 in 133 times, which corresponds to an accuracy of less than 1%.

Remember that the practice is far ahead of the theory in deep learning. Experiment with many different architectures, and trust your intuition. And, of course, have fun!

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Data Loaders for the Dog Dataset

Use the code cell below to write three separate data loaders for the training, validation, and test datasets of dog images (located at dog_images/train, dog_images/valid, and dog_images/test, respectively). You may find this documentation on custom datasets to be a useful resource. If you are interested in augmenting your training and/or validation data, check out the wide variety of transforms!

In [84]:
import os
from PIL import ImageFile
from torchvision import datasets

ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True


### TODO: Write data loaders for training, validation, and test sets
## Specify appropriate transforms, and batch_sizes

transform_train = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(224),
                               transforms.RandomRotation(20),
                               transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                               transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
                               transforms.ToTensor(),
                               transforms.Normalize([0.5, 0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5, 0.5])])

transform_test = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(224),
                               transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                               transforms.ToTensor(),
                               transforms.Normalize([0.5, 0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5, 0.5])])

num_workers = 0
batch_size = 32

data = '/data/dog_images/'
train_loc = os.path.join(data, 'train/')
validation_loc = os.path.join(data, 'valid/')
test_loc= os.path.join(data, 'test/')

train_data = datasets.ImageFolder(train_loc, transform = transform_train)
validation_data = datasets.ImageFolder(validation_loc, transform = transform_test)
test_data = datasets.ImageFolder(test_loc, transform = transform_test)


train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(train_data, batch_size = batch_size, num_workers = num_workers, shuffle = True)
validation_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(validation_data, batch_size = batch_size, num_workers = num_workers, shuffle = False)
test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(test_data, batch_size = batch_size, num_workers = num_workers, shuffle = False)


loaders_scratch = {"train" : train_loader,
                  "valid" : validation_loader,
                  "test" : test_loader}

Question 3: Describe your chosen procedure for preprocessing the data.

  • How does your code resize the images (by cropping, stretching, etc)? What size did you pick for the input tensor, and why?
  • Did you decide to augment the dataset? If so, how (through translations, flips, rotations, etc)? If not, why not?

Answer:

Resizing is done through cropping with size 224 by 224, chosen because it is commonly used for ResNet which will be used for transfer learning later on. Augementation was done through rotations.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Model Architecture

Create a CNN to classify dog breed. Use the template in the code cell below.

In [85]:
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F

# define the CNN architecture
class Net(nn.Module):
    ### TODO: choose an architecture, and complete the class
    def __init__(self):
        super(Net, self).__init__()
          
        #used stride 2 in place of maxpooling layers        
        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(3, 16, 4, stride = 2, padding = 1)
        self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(16, 32, 4, stride = 2, padding = 1)
        self.conv3 = nn.Conv2d(32, 64, 4, stride = 2, padding = 1)
        
        #linear layers
        self.fc1 = nn.Linear(64*7*7, 784)
        self.fc2 = nn.Linear(784, 133)
        
        #dropout layer
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(p = 0.2)
        
        self.batch_norm1 = nn.BatchNorm2d(32)
        self.batch_norm2 = nn.BatchNorm2d(64)        
        #maxpool layer
        self.maxpool = nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2)
    
    def forward(self, x):
        ## Define forward behavior
        
        x = F.leaky_relu(self.conv1(x), 0.2)
        x = F.leaky_relu(self.batch_norm1(self.conv2(x)), 0.2)
        x = self.maxpool(x)
        
        x = F.leaky_relu(self.batch_norm2(self.conv3(x)), 0.2)
        x = self.maxpool(x)
        
        x = x.view(-1, 64*7*7)
        
        x = F.relu(self.fc1(x))
        x = self.dropout(x)
        
        # No relu here, we use CELoss
        x = self.fc2(x)
             
        
        return x

#-#-# You so NOT have to modify the code below this line. #-#-#

# instantiate the CNN
model_scratch = Net()

# move tensors to GPU if CUDA is available
if use_cuda:
    model_scratch.cuda()
    
print(model_scratch)
Net(
  (conv1): Conv2d(3, 16, kernel_size=(4, 4), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
  (conv2): Conv2d(16, 32, kernel_size=(4, 4), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
  (conv3): Conv2d(32, 64, kernel_size=(4, 4), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
  (fc1): Linear(in_features=3136, out_features=784, bias=True)
  (fc2): Linear(in_features=784, out_features=133, bias=True)
  (dropout): Dropout(p=0.2)
  (batch_norm1): BatchNorm2d(32, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
  (batch_norm2): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
  (maxpool): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
)

Question 4: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step.

Answer:

The model has 3 convolutional layers. All convolutional layers has kernal size of 3 and stride 1. The first conv layer (conv1) have in_channels =3 and the final conv layer (conv3) produces an output size of 128.

ReLU activation function is used here. The pooling layer of (2,2) is used which will reduce the input size by 2. We have two fully connected layers that finally produces 133 dimensional output. A dropout of 0.25 is added to avoid overfitting.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Loss Function and Optimizer

Use the next code cell to specify a loss function and optimizer. Save the chosen loss function as criterion_scratch, and the optimizer as optimizer_scratch below.

In [86]:
import torch.optim as optim

### TODO: select loss function
criterion_scratch = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

### TODO: select optimizer
optimizer_scratch = optim.SGD(model_scratch.parameters(), lr = 0.006)

(IMPLEMENTATION) Train and Validate the Model

Train and validate your model in the code cell below. Save the final model parameters at filepath 'model_scratch.pt'.

In [87]:
def train(n_epochs, loaders, model, optimizer, criterion, use_cuda, save_path):
    """returns trained model"""
    # initialize tracker for minimum validation loss
    valid_loss_min = np.Inf 
    
    for epoch in range(1, n_epochs+1):
        # initialize variables to monitor training and validation loss
        train_loss = 0.0
        valid_loss = 0.0
        
        ###################
        # train the model #
        ###################
        model.train()
        for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['train']):
            # move to GPU
            if use_cuda:
                data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
            ## find the loss and update the model parameters accordingly
            ## record the average training loss, using something like
            ## train_loss = train_loss + ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - train_loss))
            
            optimizer.zero_grad()
            
            #typical train step:
            output = model(data)
            loss = criterion(output, target)
            loss.backward()
            optimizer.step()
            
            train_loss = train_loss + ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - train_loss))
            
        ######################    
        # validate the model #
        ######################
        model.eval()
        for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['valid']):
            # move to GPU
            if use_cuda:
                data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
            ## update the average validation loss
            valid_loss = valid_loss + ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - valid_loss))

            
        # print training/validation statistics 
        print('Epoch: {} \tTraining Loss: {:.6f} \tValidation Loss: {:.6f}'.format(
            epoch, 
            train_loss,
            valid_loss
            ))
        
        ## TODO: save the model if validation loss has decreased
        if valid_loss <= valid_loss_min:
            print('validation loss has decreased ({:.6f} --> {:.6f}).  saving model ...'.format(
            valid_loss_min,
            valid_loss))
            torch.save(model.state_dict(), save_path)
            valid_loss_min = valid_loss
        
            
    # return trained model
    return model
In [88]:
# train the model
model_scratch = train(20, loaders_scratch, model_scratch, optimizer_scratch, 
                      criterion_scratch, use_cuda, 'model_scratch.pt')
Epoch: 1 	Training Loss: 4.857399 	Validation Loss: 4.741635
validation loss has decreased (inf --> 4.741635).  saving model ...
Epoch: 2 	Training Loss: 4.755013 	Validation Loss: 4.716564
validation loss has decreased (4.741635 --> 4.716564).  saving model ...
Epoch: 3 	Training Loss: 4.627249 	Validation Loss: 4.812940
Epoch: 4 	Training Loss: 4.508726 	Validation Loss: 4.511101
validation loss has decreased (4.716564 --> 4.511101).  saving model ...
Epoch: 5 	Training Loss: 4.398329 	Validation Loss: 4.304706
validation loss has decreased (4.511101 --> 4.304706).  saving model ...
Epoch: 6 	Training Loss: 4.305449 	Validation Loss: 4.099871
validation loss has decreased (4.304706 --> 4.099871).  saving model ...
Epoch: 7 	Training Loss: 4.234411 	Validation Loss: 3.997439
validation loss has decreased (4.099871 --> 3.997439).  saving model ...
Epoch: 8 	Training Loss: 4.160483 	Validation Loss: 4.010882
Epoch: 9 	Training Loss: 4.093130 	Validation Loss: 4.115301
Epoch: 10 	Training Loss: 4.027149 	Validation Loss: 4.056396
Epoch: 11 	Training Loss: 3.966043 	Validation Loss: 3.627140
validation loss has decreased (3.997439 --> 3.627140).  saving model ...
Epoch: 12 	Training Loss: 3.915939 	Validation Loss: 3.991145
Epoch: 13 	Training Loss: 3.875893 	Validation Loss: 4.485710
Epoch: 14 	Training Loss: 3.818060 	Validation Loss: 3.598043
validation loss has decreased (3.627140 --> 3.598043).  saving model ...
Epoch: 15 	Training Loss: 3.774488 	Validation Loss: 4.056221
Epoch: 16 	Training Loss: 3.722393 	Validation Loss: 4.003395
Epoch: 17 	Training Loss: 3.690666 	Validation Loss: 3.734767
Epoch: 18 	Training Loss: 3.653912 	Validation Loss: 4.319237
Epoch: 19 	Training Loss: 3.608064 	Validation Loss: 3.847032
Epoch: 20 	Training Loss: 3.548511 	Validation Loss: 3.408990
validation loss has decreased (3.598043 --> 3.408990).  saving model ...

(IMPLEMENTATION) Test the Model

Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Use the code cell below to calculate and print the test loss and accuracy. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 10%.

In [89]:
def test(loaders, model, criterion, use_cuda):

    # monitor test loss and accuracy
    test_loss = 0.
    correct = 0.
    total = 0.

    model.eval()
    for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['test']):
        # move to GPU
        if use_cuda:
            data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
        # forward pass: compute predicted outputs by passing inputs to the model
        output = model(data)
        # calculate the loss
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        # update average test loss 
        test_loss = test_loss + ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - test_loss))
        # convert output probabilities to predicted class
        pred = output.data.max(1, keepdim=True)[1]
        # compare predictions to true label
        correct += np.sum(np.squeeze(pred.eq(target.data.view_as(pred))).cpu().numpy())
        total += data.size(0)
            
    print('Test Loss: {:.6f}\n'.format(test_loss))

    print('\nTest Accuracy: %2d%% (%2d/%2d)' % (
        100. * correct / total, correct, total))

# call test function    
test(loaders_scratch, model_scratch, criterion_scratch, use_cuda)
Test Loss: 3.842997


Test Accuracy: 11% (92/836)

Step 4: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (using Transfer Learning)

You will now use transfer learning to create a CNN that can identify dog breed from images. Your CNN must attain at least 60% accuracy on the test set.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Data Loaders for the Dog Dataset

Use the code cell below to write three separate data loaders for the training, validation, and test datasets of dog images (located at dogImages/train, dogImages/valid, and dogImages/test, respectively).

If you like, you are welcome to use the same data loaders from the previous step, when you created a CNN from scratch.

In [90]:
## TODO: Specify data loaders
loaders_transfer = loaders_scratch.copy()

(IMPLEMENTATION) Model Architecture

Use transfer learning to create a CNN to classify dog breed. Use the code cell below, and save your initialized model as the variable model_transfer.

In [91]:
import torchvision.models as models
import torch.nn as nn

## TODO: Specify model architecture 

model_transfer = models.resnet101(pretrained=True)

if use_cuda:
    model_transfer = model_transfer.cuda()
Downloading: "https://download.pytorch.org/models/resnet101-5d3b4d8f.pth" to /root/.torch/models/resnet101-5d3b4d8f.pth
100%|██████████| 178728960/178728960 [00:01<00:00, 95443802.75it/s]

Question 5: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. Describe why you think the architecture is suitable for the current problem.

Answer:

I picked ResNet as a transfer model because it performed outstanding on Image Classification. I looked into the structure and functions of ResNet. The core idea of ResNet is introducing a so-called “identity shortcut connection” that skips one or more layers. I guess this prevents overfitting when it's training.

I've pull out the final Fully-connected layer and replaced with Fully-connected layer with output of 133 (dog br

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Loss Function and Optimizer

Use the next code cell to specify a loss function and optimizer. Save the chosen loss function as criterion_transfer, and the optimizer as optimizer_transfer below.

In [92]:
#freeze pretrained model parameters
for param in model_transfer.parameters():
    param.requires_grad = False
    
# resnet classifies 1000 categories, but we want only 133:

model_transfer.fc = nn.Linear(2048, 133)

if use_cuda:
    model_transfer = model_transfer.cuda()
In [93]:
criterion_transfer = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
optimizer_transfer = optim.SGD(model_transfer.fc.parameters(), lr=0.006)

(IMPLEMENTATION) Train and Validate the Model

Train and validate your model in the code cell below. Save the final model parameters at filepath 'model_transfer.pt'.

In [94]:
# train the model
model_transfer = train(8, loaders_transfer, model_transfer, optimizer_transfer, criterion_transfer, use_cuda, 'model_transfer.pt')

# load the model that got the best validation accuracy (uncomment the line below)
model_transfer.load_state_dict(torch.load('model_transfer.pt'))
Epoch: 1 	Training Loss: 4.396118 	Validation Loss: 4.070295
validation loss has decreased (inf --> 4.070295).  saving model ...
Epoch: 2 	Training Loss: 3.416022 	Validation Loss: 2.984813
validation loss has decreased (4.070295 --> 2.984813).  saving model ...
Epoch: 3 	Training Loss: 2.663936 	Validation Loss: 2.548994
validation loss has decreased (2.984813 --> 2.548994).  saving model ...
Epoch: 4 	Training Loss: 2.142053 	Validation Loss: 1.977937
validation loss has decreased (2.548994 --> 1.977937).  saving model ...
Epoch: 5 	Training Loss: 1.782881 	Validation Loss: 1.826117
validation loss has decreased (1.977937 --> 1.826117).  saving model ...
Epoch: 6 	Training Loss: 1.527319 	Validation Loss: 1.679885
validation loss has decreased (1.826117 --> 1.679885).  saving model ...
Epoch: 7 	Training Loss: 1.341396 	Validation Loss: 1.512838
validation loss has decreased (1.679885 --> 1.512838).  saving model ...
Epoch: 8 	Training Loss: 1.189410 	Validation Loss: 1.677370

(IMPLEMENTATION) Test the Model

Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Use the code cell below to calculate and print the test loss and accuracy. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 60%.

In [95]:
test(loaders_transfer, model_transfer, criterion_transfer, use_cuda)
Test Loss: 1.254290


Test Accuracy: 80% (673/836)

(IMPLEMENTATION) Predict Dog Breed with the Model

Write a function that takes an image path as input and returns the dog breed (Affenpinscher, Afghan hound, etc) that is predicted by your model.

In [96]:
### TODO: Write a function that takes a path to an image as input
### and returns the dog breed that is predicted by the model.

# list of class names by index, i.e. a name can be accessed like class_names[0]
# list of class names by index, i.e. a name can be accessed like class_names[0]
class_names = [item[4:].replace("_", " ") for item in loaders_transfer['train'].dataset.classes]

def predict_breed_transfer(img_path):
    # load the image and return the predicted breed
    
    img = Image.open(img_path).convert('RGB')
    transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(size=224),
                                          transforms.CenterCrop((224,224)),
                                         transforms.ToTensor(),
                                         transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5],
                                                              std=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5])])
    
    img = transform(img).unsqueeze(0)
    
    if use_cuda:
        img = img.cuda()
    
    out = model_transfer(img)
    
    _, prediction = torch.max(out, 1)
    
    pred = np.squeeze(prediction.cpu().numpy())
    
    
    return class_names[pred]

Step 5: Write your Algorithm

Write an algorithm that accepts a file path to an image and first determines whether the image contains a human, dog, or neither. Then,

  • if a dog is detected in the image, return the predicted breed.
  • if a human is detected in the image, return the resembling dog breed.
  • if neither is detected in the image, provide output that indicates an error.

You are welcome to write your own functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, but feel free to use the face_detector and human_detector functions developed above. You are required to use your CNN from Step 4 to predict dog breed.

Some sample output for our algorithm is provided below, but feel free to design your own user experience!

Sample Human Output

(IMPLEMENTATION) Write your Algorithm

In [100]:
### TODO: Write your algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

def run_app(img_path):
    ## handle cases for a human face, dog, and neither
    if face_detector(img_path):
        print("Human detected!")
        predicted_breed = predict_breed_transfer(img_path)
        image = Image.open(img_path)
        plt.imshow(image)
        plt.show()
        print("You look like a ", predicted_breed)
        print()
    
    elif dog_detector(img_path):
        print("Dog detected!")
        predicted_breed = predict_breed_transfer(img_path)
        image = Image.open(img_path)
        plt.imshow(image)
        plt.show()
        print("You're a ", predicted_breed)
        print()
        
    else:
        print("Error! No dog or human detected.")
        image = Image.open(img_path)
        plt.imshow(image)
        plt.show()
        print('\n')

Step 6: Test Your Algorithm

In this section, you will take your new algorithm for a spin! What kind of dog does the algorithm think that you look like? If you have a dog, does it predict your dog's breed accurately? If you have a cat, does it mistakenly think that your cat is a dog?

(IMPLEMENTATION) Test Your Algorithm on Sample Images!

Test your algorithm at least six images on your computer. Feel free to use any images you like. Use at least two human and two dog images.

Question 6: Is the output better than you expected :) ? Or worse :( ? Provide at least three possible points of improvement for your algorithm.

Answer: (Three possible points for improvement)

  1. More image datasets of dogs will improve training models. Also, more image augmentations trials (flipping vertically, move left or right, etc.) will improve performance on test data.

  2. Hyper-parameter tunings: weight initializings, learning rates, drop-outs, batch_sizes, and optimizers will be helpful to improve performances.

  3. Ensembles of models

In [98]:
## TODO: Execute your algorithm from Step 6 on
## at least 6 images on your computer.
## Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

## suggested code, below
for file in np.hstack((human_files[:10], dog_files[:10])):
    run_app(file)
Human detected!
You look like a  Chinese crested

Human detected!
You look like a  Belgian tervuren

Human detected!
You look like a  Beauceron

Human detected!
You look like a  Chinese crested

Human detected!
You look like a  Bullmastiff

Human detected!
You look like a  Irish wolfhound

Human detected!
You look like a  Chinese crested

Human detected!
You look like a  Bullmastiff

Human detected!
You look like a  Chinese crested

Human detected!
You look like a  Irish wolfhound

Dog detected!
You're a  Bullmastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Bullmastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Bullmastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Mastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Bullmastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Mastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Mastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Mastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Bullmastiff

Dog detected!
You're a  Mastiff